4 robbed on Wicker Park street

1 shot

Four men from Indiana were robbed and one was shot on a street in the Wicker Park neighborhood on the Near Northwest Side early this morning.

About 2:10 a.m., four men, aged 21 to 23, were walking north on North Milwaukee Avenue when two assailants approached from behind, according to district police.

The assailants, possibly aged 20 to 25, displayed a hand gun and ordered the men onto North Paulina Street, where they forced one man to take off his earrings and another to remove his watch, police said.

The assailants then struck one of the victims with a pistol and ordered them all to keep walking, police said. The assailants then fired three shots into the air before turning the gun toward the men and shooting one in the leg, police said. The robbers then fled north on North Milwaukee Avenue on foot.

The man who was shot was taken to an area hospital, police said.

No one was in custody this morning and Grand Central Area detectives are investigating.